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Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO

posted by mrpg on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the eat-no-evil dept.

chromas (from IRC) writes:

Rising European life expectancy undermined by obesity: WHO

Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday.

In its European Health Report, covering 53 countries in a vast geographical area from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the UN agency found well-being is the highest in the world but varies widely within the region.

Average life expectancy from birth has increased from 76.7 years in 2010 to 77.8 years in 2015. Women continue to live longer than men—81.1 years compared to 74.6 years for men, although the gap has slightly narrowed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:34AM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:34AM (#734156) Journal

    Hate to break it to you, but middle east does overlap partially with europe (the european part of turkey, and probably also included greece up until they revolted. middle east might also include cyprus).

    Are you sure you don't mean the near east?

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